privateers
- present tense form of privateer (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Letters of marque regulate against abuses; privateers are paid only if they honor all the restrictions on their activities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
In theory, pirates plunder and pillage outside the law, while corsairs were privateers regulated by authorities.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024
The privateers were sponsored by the state, and set a ransom of 500 Guineas for Capt Lambton who was sailing The Stephenson from Bristol to Newcastle at the time.
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
As hostility between England and Spain grew, Elizabeth’s government sponsored privateers – pirates working for the English crown – led by a skillful and ruthless captain named Sir Francis Drake.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
“What about the French privateers in the Mediterranean?”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
